Many banks and insurance firms face serious challenges around metadata management—but regulations such as BCBS 239, the principles for effective risk and data aggregation and risk reporting, and Solvency II demand urgent action.​Approximately half of financial data professionals polled during a recent A-Team webinar said that they are still in the early stages of implementing a data lineage strategy that tracks the data’s starting point through to the end of its lifecycle.

When Maria Giudice began her career as a software and user experience designer, there were very few women leading in the field. She’s been able to blaze a trail, including creating a major business and selling it to Facebook.

Now as the VP of experience design at the software firm Autodesk, Giudice is convinced that being a woman in a male-dominated field can be an advantage. “Women really shouldn’t look at the fact that they’re less in numbers as a disadvantage, they should use it as a competitive differentiator,” she tells me.